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National Assessment of
Geologic Carbon Dioxide
Storage Resources—Results
U.S. Geological Survey
Department of the Interior
Outline for Briefing
• Overview of geologic carbon dioxide
storage
• Energy Independence and Security Act
• USGS assessment methodology
• Geologic model
• Assessment results
• Discussion of results
• Conclusions
Duncan and Morrissey (2011)
What is Geologic CO2
Storage?
Energy Independence and Security Act 2007
TITLE VII—CARBON CAPTURE AND SEQUESTRATION
Subtitle B—Carbon Capture and Sequestration Assessment and Framework
SEC. 711. CARBON DIOXIDE SEQUESTRATION CAPACITY ASSESSMENT.
(b) METHODOLOGY— …shall develop a methodology for conducting an
assessment under subsection (f), taking into consideration—
(1) the geographical extent of all potential sequestration formations in all
States;
(2) the capacity of the potential sequestration formations;
(3) the injectivity of the potential sequestration formations;
(4) an estimate of potential volumes of oil and gas recoverable by injection
and sequestration of industrial carbon dioxide in potential sequestration
formations;
(5) the risk associated with the potential sequestration formations; and
(6) the work done to develop the Carbon Sequestration Atlas of the United
States and Canada that was completed by DOE.
(c) COORDINATION—
(1) Federal Coordination
(2) State Coordination
• World: ~ 9.5 Gt carbon/year or ~ 35 Gt CO2 /year (Peters and
others, 2013)
• U.S. total all energy sectors in 2011 ~ 5.5 Gt/year CO2 (U.S.
Energy Information Administration, 2012b)
• Laramie River 2&3 PC plant 1100 MWe 8.7 Mt/yr CO2 at 85%
capacity factor (Brennan and Burruss, 2006)
How much CO2 needs to be stored?
Some examples illustrate the range:
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EIA 2012a, Annual Energy Outlook
Source: North American Carbon Storage Atlas (2012)
• Geologically-based, statistically-sound hypotheses for quantities of resource
• Comprehensive and consistent treatment (compatible/comparable to USGS assessments in other areas)
• Transparent – published methodology, assumptions
• Probabilistic – range of values to reflect geologic uncertainty
• Storage resources are combined to basin, regional, and national scales using probabilistic aggregation to correctly propagate uncertainty
• Geological models are developed for each region, estimates are regional and not project site specific
• External expert input and multiple reviews
• Does not include coal bed or unconventional (shale or tight sand) reservoirs
USGS Methodology Brennan and others (2010); Blondes and others (2013)
• Identifies storage assessment units (SAUs) at depths of 3,000 to 13,000 ft to maintain the CO2 in a supercritical state and maximize the storage resource per unit volume
• Storage formations must be sealed regionally to retain buoyant CO2
• Estimates all pore volume within a storage formation available for CO2 storage
• Incorporates underground source of drinking water (USDW) regulations of the EPA that exclude potential storage formations with water with less than 10,000 milligrams per liter (mg/L) of total dissolved solids (TDS)
• Identifies two storage types: buoyant and residual trapping (with 3 permeability classes)
• Endorsed by the International Energy Agency (IEA) and representatives from multiple national geological surveys, which recommend that regional-scale assessments of geologic CO2 storage capacities should follow the USGS methodology
USGS Methodology – cont. Brennan and others (2010); Blondes and others (2013)
Salinity of water in storage formation must
be > 10,000 mg/L TDS per EPA regulations
Brennan and others (2010); Blondes and others (2013)
Geologic Model S
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Assessment Assumptions and Constraints The USGS methodology of Brennan and others (2010) and Blondes
and others (2013):
• Does not factor in engineering issues such as injection rate or
time-dependent variables to determine the storage potential of
SAUs
• Estimates resources without consideration either of accessibility
due to land-management or regulatory restrictions or of economic
viability
• Assumes that increases in pressure within the reservoir during
CO2 injection can be mitigated by pressure management:
By water production from the storage formation
To prevent failure of reservoir or seal rock integrity
To prevent induced seismicity
Assessment Resource Categories
1. BSR, buoyant trapping storage resource: mass of CO2 that can be stored
buoyantly beneath structural or stratigraphic traps with the potential to contain
greater than 500,000 barrels of oil equivalent (BOE)
2. R1SR, residual trapping class 1 storage resource: mass of CO2 that can be
stored by residual trapping in rocks with permeability greater than 1 D
3. R2SR, residual trapping class 2 storage resource: mass of CO2 that can be
stored by residual trapping in rocks with permeability between 1 mD and 1 D
4. R3SR, residual trapping class 3 storage resource: mass of CO2 that can be
stored by residual trapping in rocks with permeability less than 1mD
5. TASR, technically accessible storage resource: total mass of CO2 that can
be stored in the storage assessment unit (SAU)
6. KRRSR, known recovery replacement storage resource: mass of CO2 that
can be stored in existing producing hydrocarbon reservoirs
Data Sources • USGS National Oil and Gas Assessment publications were a
significant source of reservoir characteristics and other geologic
input parameters
• Data-sharing agreements with numerous State geological surveys
and universities, many of which are members of the DOE National
Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) Regional Carbon
Sequestration Partnerships
• Two principal proprietary petroleum databases were mined for a
substantial proportion of the data used in the assessments; these
are the oil and gas field and reservoir database from Nehring
Associates, Inc., and the databases of individual well information
from IHS Inc.
• Water-quality data from USGS, NETL, and other datasets available
from State sources
USGS National Assessment of
Geologic Carbon Dioxide Storage
Resources by U.S. Geological Survey Geologic Carbon Dioxide Storage
Resources Assessment Team, 2013a,b,c
Three companion assessment reports:
a. Data - USGS Data Series 774:
http://pubs.usgs.gov/ds/774/
b. Results - USGS Circular 1386:
http://pubs.usgs.gov/circ/1386/
c. Summary - Fact Sheet 2013–3020:
http://pubs.usgs.gov/fs/2013/3020/
36 Basins
202 SAUs (10 nonquantitative SAUs)
Results of the Assessment Estimates of national totals for technically accessible storage resources
(TASR) for carbon dioxide (CO2) in the United States by
resource type and class
Estimates are in billions of metric tons (gigatons, Gt);
mean values sum to totals but are reported to only two
significant figures.
CO2 storage resource type and class P5 P50 P95 Mean
Symbol Name
Storage resource estimated from geologic models
BSR Buoyant trapping storage resource 19 31 110 44
R1SR Residual trapping class 1 storage resource 97 140 200 140
R2SR Residual trapping class 2 storage resource 2,100 2,600 3,300 2,700
R3SR Residual trapping class 3 storage resource 58 120 230 130
TASR (total) Technically accessible storage resource 2,400 3,000 3,700 3,000
Storage resource estimated from petroleum production volumes
KRRSR Known recovery replacement storage
resource 11 13 15 13
Pie charts showing mean estimates of technically accessible storage resources
(TASR) for carbon dioxide (CO2) in the United States by
(A) type and class and (B) region.
Most (89 percent) of the TASR is in the residual
trapping class 2 storage resource category
(mean estimate of 2,700 Gt)
The regions with the largest technically
accessible storage resources are the Coastal
Plains Region (mostly in the U.S. Gulf Coast)
and the Alaska Region (North Slope)
Graph showing the range estimated for the technically accessible storage
resource (TASR) for carbon dioxide (CO2) in each assessed basin in the United
States. Estimates are in millions of metric tons (Mt).
Pie charts showing mean estimates of technically accessible storage
resources (TASR) for carbon dioxide (CO2) in selected regions of the
United States
Western U.S. basins contain variable
amounts of freshwater (<10,000 mg/L
TDS), which will restrict the use of the CO2
storage resource capacity in these basins
Pie charts showing mean estimates of technically accessible storage
resources (TASR) for carbon dioxide (CO2) in selected regions of the
United States
Pie charts showing mean estimates of technically accessible storage
resources (TASR) for carbon dioxide (CO2) in selected regions of the
United States
The Alaska North Slope petroleum industry may
utilize subsurface petroleum reservoirs for
storage of CO2 that is coproduced with
hydrocarbons or stored during the enhanced-oil-
recovery process using CO2.
Discussion of Results
• The 44 Gt (mean estimate) of buoyant trapping storage resources
includes non-hydrocarbon-bearing reservoir formations, but most of
the resources are well defined by hydrocarbon exploration data
• Deep SAUs account for 16 percent of the total TASR. Any potential
developer of the deep SAUs has to consider the increased
operational pressures needed to inject CO2 at depths greater than
13,000 ft.
• The total geologic storage resources for CO2 in the United States
are large, and both types (buoyant and residual) will probably be
needed to store anthropogenic CO2
• The U.S. Energy Information Administration (2012b) estimated
that the 2011 national energy-related CO2 emissions were 5.5
Gt. The mean estimate by the USGS of the technically
accessible geologic storage resource (TASR) for CO2 in the
United States is 3,000 Gt, which is more than 500 times the
annual energy-related CO2 emissions
• However, the mean buoyant trapping storage resource (BSR) of
44 Gt is approximately eight times the annual energy-related
CO2 emissions, which means that the use of residual trapping
storage resources for CO2 will be required to significantly reduce
anthropogenic CO2 emissions into the atmosphere during the
next few decades
Discussion of Results – cont.
• The USGS has completed an evaluation of the TASR for CO2 for 36
sedimentary basins in the onshore areas and State waters of the
United States
• The mean assessment results are:
TASR = 3,000 Gt of total subsurface CO2 storage capacity that is
technically accessible in onshore areas and State waters
BSR = 44 Gt of storage by buoyant trapping in structural or stratigraphic
closures
R1SR = 140 Gt of Residual Class 1 storage resources
R2SR = 2,700 Gt of Residual Class 2 storage resources
R3SR = 130 Gt of Residual Class 3 storage resources
KRRSR = 13 Gt of known oil and gas recovery replacement storage
resources
• The regions with the largest technically accessible storage
resources are the Coastal Plains Region (mostly in the U.S. Gulf
Coast) and the Alaska Region (North Slope)
Conclusions
Peter D. Warwick, Project Chief
Madalyn S. Blondes
Sean T. Brennan
Marc L. Buursink
Steven M. Cahan
James L. Coleman
Troy A. Cook
Margo D. Corum
Jacob A. Covault
William H. Craddock
Christina A. DeVera
Colin Doolan
Ronald M. Drake II
Lawrence J. Drew
Joseph A. East
Philip A. Freeman
Christopher P. Garrity
Kevin J. Gooley
Mayur A. Gosai
Hossein Jahediesfanjani2
Celeste D. Lohr
John C. Mars
Matthew D. Merrill
Ricardo A. Olea
Tina L. Roberts-Ashby
William A. Rouse
Paul G. Schruben
John H. Schuenemeyer2
Ernie R. Slucher
Brian A. Varela
Mahendra K. Verma
Members of the U.S. Geological Survey Geologic Carbon
Dioxide Storage Resources Assessment Team1
1All members are or were with the U.S. Geological Survey unless otherwise indicated. 2Contractor
http://energy.usgs.gov
http://go.usa.gov/8X8 (USGS geologic CO2 project website)
http://pubs.usgs.gov/ds/774/ (USGS CO2 storage assessment data)
http://pubs.usgs.gov/circ/1386/ (USGS CO2 storage assessment results)
http://pubs.usgs.gov/fs/2013/3020/ (USGS CO2 storage assessment summary)
For more information contact:
Brenda Pierce
703-648-6421
Peter Warwick
703-648-6469
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